Cheers To Sunshine!

No one should ever be without a drink, we believe! Beautiful summers, when the days are long, nights slightly balmy and sunny living is pretty easy. To keep your bashes and entertaining stress-free or if you have plans of chilling with a cold, refreshing drink in a tall glass we have got ideas to make drinks a fun and fresh affair. Trust us they look as good as they taste besides adding some fruity fun to your bubbly with some light ingredients will do you much good. Get inspired by these refreshing cocktails and mocktails. Sous Chef Vaibhav Bhargava, Sheraton Hotel New Delhi, gives us two tantalizing drinks to sit back and relax at home or please guests of all ages that we assure won’t ruin your healthy eating plan! Cheers!

3 C Martini (Chili Cinnamon Chocolate)

Total Time: 10 min
Yield: 1 portion
Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Dark chocolate sauce 10ml

Polish vodka 45ml

Sugar syrup 5ml

Cream 2 ml

Chili Red 1 no.

Ginger 2g

Cinnamon 1 stick

Lemon Juice 5ml

Chocolate powder 5g

Ice to shake

Method:

Infuse the vodka with cinnamon, ginger and chili and keep aside for 2 hours.

Strain the vodka.

Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice cubes.

Stir for 30 seconds.

Double strain the drink from the strainer, meanwhile rim the glass with chocolate powder.

Strained into a chilled martini glass.

Garnish with chocolate cigar and chili.

CHA-SHA (Chocolate Irish) Mocktail

Total Time: 10 min
Yield: 1 Portion
Preparation Time: 10 min

Ingredients:

Apple Juice 100ml

Strawberry 3

Chocolate Syrup 10ml

Irish 10ml

Whipped Cream 30g

Vanilla Ice Cream 50g

Ice to shake

Cherry to garnish

Chocolate cigar 1

Method:

Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice cubes.

Stir for 30 seconds.

In a glass, put some crushed ice, add some diced strawberry, strained the drink into a chilled hurricane glass.

Top it up with whipped cream, garnish it with chocolate cigar, strawberry and cherry.